Does C++ make sense?
Every once in a while I get a message that contains some nugget of news on C++, a talk, or a new book or something like that. Frankly, I wonder if C++ has any legs left in it. There will always be a case for C, which is just portable assembler. But C++? A non-reflective, machine specific, non-garbage collected, super strongly typed object oriented language. Now that C# and Java are fast enough does C++ make any sense? I can see that Perl, Ruby, Python and the dynamic languages, may be too far for some folks. But clearly an object oriented language should at least handle memory allocations, strings, reflection and basics like that.
Posted by jherr at March 14, 2006 03:31 PM